India's POV
I woke up early because I had so much stuff I had to do today. I had to sign the girls up for school, do some shopping for the house, and set up a few doctors appointments. I showered while the kids were still asleep before slipping into a robe and walking downstairs. I searched around for a bit before I finally found the kitchen. As I walked in I jumped as I saw someone sitting at the kitchen island. I noticed it was the guy from the club who I'm assuming name is Chet, the guy that King mentioned.
"Oh my god you scared me." I told him holding a hand on my belly and chest.
"Im sorry miss India, King wanted me to be here early so I could bring you breakfast and take you were you need to go." He said smiling at me.
"Just call me India. Have you eaten breakfast yet?" I asked him pointing towards the food.
"Nah this for y'all, King had his personal chef make this and had me bring it by on my way in."
"Let me make you a plate" I said going towards the pans of food.
"No really Im good" he said shaking his head.
"Non sense, it looks like the chef made a buffet, we can't eat all this by ourselves." I told him before searching in the cabinet to find plates and silverware. I opened the containers and saw the chef made a little of everything breakfast potatoes, pancakes, waffles, sausage, bacon, eggs with cheese, grits and a fruit salad. "Pancakes or waffles?" I asked him.
"Waffles"
"Sausage or bacon?"
"Bacon"
"Grits, eggs and potatoes?" I asked looking up at him and he just nodded his head smiling. I packed everything on to two plates before sitting it in front of him. "OJ or coffee?"
"Orange Juice is fine thank you." I poured him a cup, placing it in front of him before making myself a plate. I added the breakfast potatoes and the fruit salad onto my plate before saying a silent prayer that's this baby allowed me to keep it down.
"So how long have you been working for King?" I asked while taking a bite of my food.
"For a few years now. He started me off as a bottom boy and I made my way up. If your loyal to him he's loyal to you, you know?" He said nodding into his food.
"Yea I hear you." I said nodding my head. "I have to drop the girls at their old school and enroll them at their new school. Its called Leaders of Tomorrow. They were the only one of the two schools that King sent me that
could get the girls in while in the middle of the school year so they told me to come by today to take a tour and fill out the paper work." I told him.
"Yea King mentioned that, your appointment is right after we drop the kids off right?" He asked.
"Yup, I wanted to do it bright and early so I can get stuff done today." I began to fill nauseated so I hurriedly jumped up and sprinted to the nearest bathroom. I quickly opened the toilet before throwing up everything I just ate. I felt someone grab my hair pulling it away from my face as I cried and emptied my stomach. "You don't have to do this Chet, your not getting paid to be my nurse" I said right before puking again.
"It's Cheterio." He said as he rubbed my back. "You shouldn't have to go through this alone" he said sincerely. "As long as I'm here you won't have to."
"Thank you." I don't know why but I felt like we were gonna be close friends.
6 Months Later
This pregnancy has been by far the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. I didn't think it would be this hard carrying a life into this world. If it wasn't for Chet I honestly wouldn't know what I would do, we've grown so close these past few months he was like a brother.
King visit once a month for the doctor appointments, he participated in my maternity shoot, and he calls every morning and every night but he's never around. I think because I know he can be around more makes me even more depressed. My disorder has gotten so bad that I have a regular nurse and I get administered IV fluids at home regularly. The kids birthdays have come and gone and it kills me knowing I didn't have the energy to give them what they deserve.
It was early morning and the kids were already off to school so it was just Brayden, Chet and I. I heard a ring on my phone and like clock work I knew exactly who it was, King.
"Hello." I said putting the phone on speaker to place it on my belly. I knew how important it was for the baby to hear Kings voice so every time we spoke I always put the phone where the baby could hear.
"Goodmorning, how's everything going?" He asked.
"Fine." I said keeping it short. I woke up aggravated and didn't feel like talking to him right now.
"The kids off to school? You wake up feeling sick?" He asked me.
"Yes."
"Did you keep anything down after we spoke last night?"
"No."
"What's good with you why you giving me short ass responses?" He asked.
"Because you do this every morning yet your never around, you care so much, yet I'm going through all of this by myself, you said I wouldn't do this alone and yet here I am." I said as I began sobbing.
"Calm down India your stressing your body and the baby." He said with a sigh. And hearing that just made the tears even more uncontrollable. "I'm gonna send Man over there to check on you, I'm out of town right now and if I could come I would." That immediately stopped my tears and made my aggravation level sky rocket.
"Don't bother King." I said before hanging up. What's the point of sending someone else here when you're the father to this baby, it just doesn't make sense.
I walked out the room going into Brayden's room to get him up for breakfast. He was already up looking around as I reached in and put him on my hip. I walked downstairs and put him in his high chair before giving him his breakfast. He played around with it and ate a few bites before splashing banana all over the kitchen. Once he was done I did a little cleaning, fed Brayden and put him down for a nap and before I knew it, it was noontime.
" Hey India." Chet said walking in the kitchen.
"Hey Chet, how you doing?" I asked.
" Good, what you up to, you know you ain't supposed to be up and about like this." He said with concern all on his face.
"Well it drives me crazy being in that bed all day, in this house all day, I barely talk to anyone, it's really starting to take a toll on me mentally." I told him as tears fell from my eyes for the second time today. He walked closer to me bringing me in a hug. "I feel like this baby is just gonna be another statistic with a absentee as a father."
"Listen India I'll be the father to this baby okay, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." I don't know why but that statement made me a little uncomfortable. I don't mind him saying he'll be a male figure but saying "father" is just a little to much for me. He pulled me into a hug and before I knew it he was kissing me. I was frozen in shock because that's the last thing I expected for him to say or do. I always saw Chet as a brother and I assumed he saw me as his little sister. I pulled back far to late for my liking because I didn't want him to think I saw him that way, and the next thing I knew Man was in the kitchen. I stepped further away from Chet as if he were poisonous.
"Hey wassup, what y'all up to?" He asked. I was searching his face to gage wether he saw that or not and seeing from his tone, he seemed normal.
"Nothing." I said nervously.
"You good India you look like you saw a ghost or something?" Man asked.
"Yea Im all good." I said nodding my head "I was just cleaning up around the house, you want a water or something?" I asked walking across the Kitchen counter.
"Nah Im good, King sent me over here to check on you, he said you had a rough morning, just wanted to check and see if you and baby King were okay." He said.
"Nah I'm all good, just been having a few episodes, I think the end of this pregnancy is starting to get to me." I said with a laugh.
"Alright we'll I just wanted to check for myself, make sure everything all good, I'm gonna head out I have some shit I have to check up on I'll see y'all later, India don't hesitate to call me if y'all need anything aight." I nodded my head yes.
"Yea of course, let me walk you out." I started walking him to the front door with Chet right behind me. I hugged him goodbye before I watched him drive away. As I closed the door I felt arms around my waist and I quickly pushed them away. "We can't Chet. You can't do that again." Is all I said because I began to feel dizzy and nauseated. I walked away from him so I could lay down until the feeling subsided.